A ROYAL PAIN The pregnant Princess Cordelia had a surefire scheme for wiggling out of inheriting the throne of her tiny, stuffy country—have a baby with someone penniless, unrefined and downright common. Someone who would horrify her parents and her subjects. Someone like Crash Craddock: beach bum. THE ULTIMATE COMMONER Crash knew he was broke...but he also knew he could offer a woman like Cordelia something worth more than money—himself! He had what it took to teach this blue-blooded brat how to be a real mother, a real wife...and a real woman ripe for love! CAN THESE OPPOSITES ATTRACT?
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Winner of the 2009 Lifetime Achievement award for mystery writing from Romantic Times magazine, Nancy Martin announces the release of the 8th book in her popular Blackbird Sisters mystery series, NO WAY TO KILL A LADY. Set in Philadelphia, the story features three heiresses whose parents have run off with their trust funds. Now thay have a chance to regain their wealth when their aunt, "Madcap Maddy" Blackbird dies in a volcano and leaves her estate to the sisters. But Nora Blackbird soon discovers all the treasures in Aunt Maddy's house have disappeared...information that leads her to believe maybe Maddy didn't die the way everybody thinks. Author of 48 pop fiction novels in mystery, suspense, historical and romance genres, Nancy created The Blackbird Sisters in 2002—- mysteries about three impoverished heiresses who adventure in couture and crime—as if “Agatha Christie had wandered onto the set of Sex and The City.” Nominated for the Agatha Award for Best First Mystery of 2002, HOW TO MURDER A MILLIONAIRE won the RT award for Best First Mystery and was a finalist for the Daphne DuMaurier Award. Currently, she is at work on the Roxy Abruzzo mystery series for St. Martin’s Minotaur. In 2009 she received the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award for mystery writing. Nancy lives in Pittsburgh, serves on the board of Sisters in Crime and is a founding member of Pennwriters. Find her on Pinterest and Facebook.
